Village Innovation earns Redeemer recognition Redeemer Lutheran School has been awarded membership in The Educator’s Innovative Schools List for 2020, adding to the school’s success in the Australian Education Awards program. Redeemer is a finalist in the Non-Government Primary School of the Year category, to be determined on 26 November. Last year, Redeemer won the national
On Monday 26 October, Redeemer Lutheran School Chess Club members attended the SA Chess State Finals. It was an exciting day for the group. Team caption, from left: Flynn Ennis, Lily Pietsch, Tyler Brice, Mason Cooper, Eddie Gill, Jayden Schmidt, Alexi Samonte, Darcy Geyer. There were 10 Primary schools represented, with 94 players in total. Students were required
Redeemer Lutheran School is grateful to the State Government for a grant to assist the school's commitment to providing individual information & communications technology (ICT) devices for use by every student. Member for Schubert Stephan Knoll recently visited to celebrate the school receiving the 2020 Independent Non-Government School Capital Grant Funding. The grant will go towards the school's Laptop
In the lead up to their Year 7 Exhibition in September, two of the Exhibition teams that are focused on eliminating poverty participated in The Hutt St Centre’s ‘Walk a Mile’ Fundraiser on Friday in an ambient temperature of about 2 degrees. The event marked the culmination of the
Redeemer families celebrated the end of Term 2 with an inspired PFA-run 'Dress up your Dash' or 'Kar-dash-ian' competition to mark the anticipated end of relying on Kiss & Drop. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, families have done an amazing job using Kiss & Drop to deliver children of all ages to school each day, rather than walking them
Redeemer Lutheran School has built upon its 2019 Australian Education Award win for Innovation in Learning Environment Design by qualifying as a finalist for the Non-Government Primary School of the Year category at the 2020 awards. Principal Andrew Kelly said the finalist selection highlighted the strength of the school’s comprehensive learning philosophy from Early Learning to Year 7.
Term 2 of learning resumed at Redeemer today with students participating from their homes. Home learning started in the later weeks of term 1 before Barossa schools were temporarily closed due to a COVID-19 'cluster'. Pictured left, one of our younger students created her own laptop for video-conferencing, something children and families have got used to during this
On Sunday night, 29 March 2020, the South Australian government ordered all schools in the Barossa Valley to close. Principal Andrew Kelly contacted school families that evening, saying in part "SA Health has elected to immediately close all schools in our region as a precautionary measure given a number of positive COVID-19 cases in our region. We have been informed
Staff Called to Serve in Lutheran Schools In his letter to the Ephesians, the apostle Paul wrote: It was [God] who gave gifts to humankind; he appointed some to be apostles, others to be prophets, others to be evangelists, others to be pastors and teachers. He did this to prepare all God’s people for the work of Christian service, in
Monday’s assembly provided all those present with an opportunity to reflect on 2019. Thank you to Mrs Doecke who prepared a photographic montage which highlighted the incredible number of experiences that students have participated in throughout the year. During the assembly we also acknowledged our current School Captains for their commitment to leading our